Tour Operations Industry

Now that Disney Cruise Line is sailing from Miami for the first time and offering Florida resident and other promotions, it’s more convenient and affordable than ever for local families to book their dream cruise vacation. Miami-based itineraries are planned through the first half of 2014, alternating between the Disney Wonder and Magic. “[Miami] is such a great, vibrant city; it’s so much fun to be [here],” Cruise Director Christiaan Abbott told me as my family and I sailed on the four-night Bahamian itinerary onboard the Disney Wonder, with stops at Key West, Nassau, Bahamas, and Disney’s private island, Castaway Cay. Hotel Director James Willoughby said...

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For many tourists who visit Asia, riding an elephant is high on their list of "musts," but the ethics of elephant tourism are being questioned by animal-rights groups as well as tour operators. Responsibletravel.com, a British company that bills...

A driver in a tour bus crash that injured at least 14 in New York's Times Square faces charges of impaired driving, police said Wednesday.
William Dalambert of Irvington, New Jersey, a Gray Line bus driver, was charged...

For decades, visits to New York City have meant Broadway shows, Fifth Avenue shopping and slack-jawed stops at Times Square and the Statue of Liberty. Those experiences will always remain quintessential New York, but for the last year the city's tourism...

The Willis Clan returns to television tonight to compete in the quarterfinal rounds of “America’s Got Talent,” but they’ve been plenty busy since the last time they appeared on the show.
The 12-member, all-sibling band from Middle Tennessee played two...

Chicago’s Polk family, which made its name in furniture and appliance retailing, today announced a $20 million gift to Navy Pier to help upgrade Gateway Park, the 13-acre green space at the entertainment complex’s western entrance.The park, which will...

Chicago’s Polk family, which made its name in furniture and appliance retailing, today announced a $20 million gift to Navy Pier to help upgrade Gateway Park, the 13-acre green space at the entertainment complex’s western entrance.The park, which will...

Millennium Park, which turns 10 Wednesday, is the best thing former Mayor Richard M. Daley ever did. But as this month's titillating trial over a controversial contract for the Park Grill shows, the popular park has never fully detached itself from...

It was a chilly, rainy afternoon when my husband and I boarded the Viking Freya in Budapest, Hungary, for an eight-day cruise along the Danube River to Nuremberg, Germany. After arriving from the U.S. a few days earlier to tour the city, we finally had...

Five years after workers were accused of digging up and dumping hundreds of bodies in a scheme to resell burial plots, Burr Oak Cemetery is trying to overcome the scandal and reassume its place in preserving Chicago's African-American history.
But Burr...

The No. 2 executive at Chicago-based Orbitz Worldwide left the online travel agency this week for another job.
Chris Orton, named chief operating officer in February, left to take the role of chief revenue officer at online sports apparel company...

Somali-linked Islamists have killed at least 50 people in a Kenyan coastal town, executing men in front of their families and killing others who had gathered to watch World Cup soccer on television.
The al Shabaab group said on Monday that its...

If you close your eyes at the Sea Harbour Restaurant for just a few moments, you could swear you're in Hong Kong, as servers and customers exchange rapid-fire Cantonese. When you open them, it's as if you've been teleported to the Pearl of the Orient;...

For something educational to do before lunch, I admired bottle after bottle of pickled parasites. Some frilled. Some with suckers. Most hermaphrodite. And all gross.
Tokyo's Meguro Parasitological Museum is a research center as well as a tourist...

Kaboom. It’s fireworks season again at Navy Pier.
They start tonight at 10:15 p.m. and are every Saturday and Wednesday night through Labor Day, according to a statement from Navy Pier spokesman Nick Shields.
The show is choreographed to music...

First, a confession: I prefer the Sox, but if the Cubs are having a decent year, I'll root for them too.
I know it's heresy to say so around here, but I'm mostly a fan of good local baseball, no matter whether the uniform is black and the ballpark...

Over its 180-year history, the tourist attractions and amenities in St. Charles have consistently provided visitors with snapshot memories and charming stories to write home about. This year the Greater St. Charles Convention and Visitors Bureau asked its...

A custom-made, $10,000 guitar stolen in March from heavy metal rocker Zakk Wylde's tour bus outside The Chicago Theatre has been recovered after being sold to a Chicago pawn shop, Wylde's manager confirmed Saturday.
The owners of Royal Pawn Shop, 428...

SPRINGFIELD — This time there was no doubt that Democratic House Speaker Michael Madigan officially won approval on a vote Wednesday for his legislation to put $100 million toward a Barack Obama presidential library.Two weeks ago, Republicans howled...

At last, a place in Chicago that pays attention to sports!
Not buying it? A little overwhelmed at times — especially during the playoffs — by all the city's sports chatter? Tired of the seemingly unceasing hum that forces even the most bookish among us...

— Denny Garkey waited out the season's first rain delay in the gift shop at Little Cubs Field last weekend.
He and volunteers had come to prepare the community gathering spot and tourist attraction for its opening day this Monday, but it was a while...